BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian University field hockey squad tied the program record with its tenth win of the season as the Greyhounds defeated visiting Elizabethtown College, 5-1, under the lights on John Makuvek Field Wednesday evening in Landmark Conference action as the Hounds captured their sixth consecutive victory.

How It Happened

• The Blue Jays scored the opening goal of the match just 4:11 into the contest on a penalty corner
• Moravian would even the score in the 12th minute when sophomore midfielder Sarah Bietka tapped in a long shot from junior midfielder Maddie Call
• The Greyhounds took the lead for good four minutes into the second quarter as junior midfielder Emily Wells netted a goal on a spinning shot that went inside the left post off another pass from Call
• Moravian made it 3-1 just a minute before the intermission when senior forward Ava Edwards shot in a pass from the left side by freshman forward Sydney Anderson
• Edwards netted her second goal of the evening just 1:19 into the third quarter as sophomore forward Hanna Leto drove in from the right side and slipped a pass to Edwards in front of the goal
• The Hounds finished off the scoring in the 55th minute as sophomore midfielder Bekkah Kehoe found the back if the goal with a tap-in of a long shot from freshman midfielder Savannah Sutter 

Inside the Numbers

• Moravian tied the school record of 10 victories originally set in 1988 and then tied in 1989, 1992, 1996 and 2004
• The Greyhounds also have school records of 45 goals, 37 assists and 127 points for the year
• The Blue and Grey are now 3-1 in Landmark Conference action, the first time since the conference was founded in 2007 that the Hounds have won three conference contests in a season
• It is the Hounds' first win over the Blue Jays since Elizabethtown became a full member of the Landmark Conference in 2014-15. Moravian had lost 12 straight matches to Elizabethtown dating back to October 23, 2004 when the Greyhounds posted a 4-1 victory on Betty Prince Field
• Junior goalie Brooke Wilkinson made four saves as she became the third goalkeeper in program history to earn 10 victories in a season
• Edwards now has 15 goals on the season, the fourth most in a single campaign, and she became the 14th Greyhound to record 20 goals in a career
• Bietka scored for the sixth time this fall while Wells picked up her fourth goal of the season and Kehoe netted her second goal
• Call became the 28th player to record two assists in a match in school history, and she now has five assists in 2021
• Sutter earned her first collegiate point with her assist while Anderson and Leto each have three assists this season
• Moravian had a 19-8 advantage in shots and a 12-4 edge in penalty corners in the contest 

Up Next for the Greyhounds

• Saturday, October 16 at Juniata College, 1:00 p.m.
• Saturday, October 23 vs. The University of Scranton, 1:00 p.m. – Senior Day